Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [prep] [noun sg] [be] " in BNC.

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1 Or is it a universal meaning that is potentially available to all but in practice is available only to the structuralist ?
2 Classic examples of the use of crops for industrial purposes rather than for food are : the production of ethanol for fuel from sugar cane in Brazil and from maize in the USA , and alcohol from potatoes .
3 In short , those passages which rely for their effect on colour-contrasts rather than on colour-blending are most suitable for wind alone .
4 However , this advantage would be lost if the allophones that were the product of word-internal context-effects were also caused by context-effects across word boundaries : thus if in lee were realised as a voiceless [ l ] in a moderately fast production of … tip leewards … , lee would once more be embedded within plea even at an allophonic level of representation .
5 Not until after Easter was King Henry well enough to attend a conference , but even then nothing was achieved .
6 Italian maritime aircraft were soon out in force searching for the British Fleet , but not until after midday was it at last spotted .
7 Mind you , common sense , a rounded personality , tenacity and integrity , coupled with a commitment to community activities over and beyond work are the theme of the various references past employers have given me .
8 The time spent searching the types of jobs considered acceptable , temporary work , and the availability of alternative jobs within and without industry are quite different for men and women .
9 Four years later , more open displays of affection both on and off campus were common .
10 Educating young people to drink responsibly and in moderation is best achieved by parents setting a good example .
11 Another rider who fell off when in contention was one of the favourites Phillip McCallen who left the race at Church Corner , Portrush on lap three .
12 Changes in UAO before and after breakfast were measured in 106 Gambian children .
13 see you later , you 're not coming out till after tea are you ?
14 So although no route can more truly be called a " beaten track " than the one which heads for the Gotthard Pass , now that the old Gotthard road has been supplanted so far as through traffic is concerned by the Basel-Chiasso motor expressway ( E9 , N2 ) , many towns and villages on the old road can be rated as " off the beaten track " .
15 Base and precious metals ; enamels , plastics and wood ; threads and fabrics ; clays and plaster and any other materials used singly or in combination are the bases for experiment : character , judgement , experience and knowledge are what we bring to them .
16 The use of very large stones — megaliths — either singly or in combination was widespread among the ancients , and it is clear that our ancestors must have regarded the practice as extremely important .
17 Pretreatment of HT-29 cells with monoclonal antibodies against α 1 or Β 1 significantly inhibited cell adhesion to type IV collagen , indicating that HT-29 adhesion to the basement membrane component type IV collagen as well as to laminin is mediated by Β 1 containing integrins .
18 Additionally , global sea level would be expected to rise by 0.2 to 1.6 metres during the twenty-first century because of the thermal expansion of the seawater with increasing temperature as well as from water being added from the melting of mountain glaciers and polar ice sheets .
19 Its civil jurisdiction was encroached upon , as contracts made and wrongs done abroad or at sea were brought within the jurisdiction of the ordinary courts by fictions , such as the pretence that such towns as Bordeaux were within the area of , say , Cheapside , so that many international commercial transactions were considered to be purely municipal .
20 Learning to use it fully and without embarrassment is a challenge , but one that many visually handicapped pupils have met with success .
21 Not only did the non-working bourgeois become increasingly frequent — in Cologne the number of rentiers paying income tax grew from 162 in 1854 to almost 600 in 1874 — but how else except by spending was the successful bourgeois , whether or not he held political power as a class , to demonstrate his conquest ?
22 A four-wheeled diesel called ‘ Rusty ’ loosely based on a Rushton Shunter design , also celebrated its arrival recently and to date is mainly used for engineering and work trains .
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